[Magdalen] How do you buy a stove?

[Jay Weigel]

I *hate* my glass cooktop stove and would cheerfully go back to the other
kind of electric, or to gas. However, the stove came with the house (and
with S/O) so I deal with it and try not to curse it too loudly. There isn't
a prayer of getting a natural gas pipeline up here and S/O does not want to
deal with propane, so there we are.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lynn, is your propane tank inside or outside? If it's outside, there
> shouldn't be a problem; if it's inside, check with the propane company to
> see if you can hook a stove up to it. The stove needs some kind of
> modification to use propane rather than natural gas, but it's easy to have
> that done before it's delivered.
>
> On August 1, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Gas is my favorite..... can't  have it where I live as there are no gas
> lines running into condo community AND using propane from my 'storage area'
> located exactly next to the back side of the kitchen is most probably a
> no-no.
> L
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a
> single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>  "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Charles Wohlers" <charles.wohlers at verizon.net>
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 1:46 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] How do you buy a stove?
>
> > Our house in Vermont came with the kind of stove that Lynn describes I
> > completely agree with what she says. It probably looked really nice when
> > new, but, it's impossible to clean thoroughly, takes a long time to heat
> > up (& cool down), and non-flat pots don't work so well. Oh, yes, the big
> > pot one uses for canning jam takes f-o-e-v-e-r to heat up to boiling.
> Down
> > here in Mass. we have an old gas stove, and it's infinitely superior,
> even
> > tho it doesn't look quite so nice.
> >
> > We once visited Judith Jones, Julia Child's editor and a big cook in her
> > own right, who has a summer place near us in VT. She has an old gas stove
> > running off a big propane tank buried in the ground outside. She knows
> > what she's doing.
> >
> > Chad Wohlers
> > East Bridgewater, MA USA
> > chadwohl at satucket.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lynn Ronkainen
> > Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 2:29 PM
> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] How do you buy a stove?
> >
> > Look carefully Susan - most all of the electric stoves today have the
> > smooth
> > glass top. I am an avid cook and I do not like mine (it was brand new
> when
> > I
> > moved into my condo)... slow to heat up, easily stained by high sugar or
> > high acid (think spag sauce) items that could never be removed with the
> > 'polish' that you have to buy to clean it. This happened to me 6 months
> > into
> > using it - finally had to resort to 'not recommended' ways of removing
> > damage, which made it more susceptible to continued damage. Also not
> > supposed to use cast iron on it, AND if your pots are not totally smooth
> > on
> > the bottom, the lack of complete 'contact' with the heated surface may
> > cause
> > the heat to go on and off....the only thing I like about the stove is the
> > 'theoretically' easy to clean surface, but mine, after 8 years looks like
> > it's been through the wars...
> >
> > If you are a baker/oven user more than a stove top user, or have no
> > unusual
> > needs for stove top (jam making, cast iron searing, large pots cooking
> > large
> > batches of tomato sauce...) the smooth glass top might suit your needs.
> >
> >
> > I have failed to find a high quality electric stove with the coil burners
> > at
> > any of the 'big box' stores like Best Buy, my usual go-to place for
> > appliances.
> >
> > Lynn
> >
> >
> >
> > website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >
> > When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not
> > a
> > single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> > attributed to Erma Bombeck
> > "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> > by Richard Rohr
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 11:59 AM
> > To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] How do you buy a stove?
> >
> >> You look at the ratings online first, and check the various forums.
> >> That's
> >> what we did when buying our dishwasher.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> My electric oven quit on me the night before I left on vacation.  It
> was
> >>> old when I moved in this house 15 years ago, I've replaced stove top
> >>> elements several times and I don't want to spend any more money on it.
> >>> I'm
> >>> headed out to look at what's on the market.  I don't even know what
> >>> questions to ask.  How do you buy a stovetop/oven combo these days?
> >>> I'll
> >>> try Best Buy and Lowes I guess.
> >>>
> >>> Susan
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Before enlightenment pay bills, do laundry.  After enlightenment pay
> >>> bills,
> >>> do laundry.
> >>>
> >
>